Economic Factors
On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and Economic Factors, broken down into the following sections:
Issues in Economic Oppression: Affordable Housing, Capitalism, Community Disinvestment, Concentrated Poverty, Disposable Workforce, Economic Policy, Exclusionary Lending, Exploitation, Expropriation, Extractive Economies, Depreciation, Dispossession, Federal Aid, Gentrification, Homeownership, Housing Discrimination, Income Inequality, Low Income Housing, Prison Labor, Promotion Gap, Public Housing, Racial Capitalism, Redlining, Residential Discrimination, Targeted Zoning Laws, Union Busting, Wage Labor, Wealth Gap, White Flight, Workers' Rights, Working Conditions, Workplace Discrimination
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Video Clips
Source: AJ+ (2023, February 1). I Own A Home But I’m Still Being Evicted. YouTube. https://youtu.be/LVZsDMm6UVc
Source: AJ. (2021, February 3). Is Capitalism Anti-Black? YouTube. https://youtu.be/kd3_6RntTfs
Source: Vice. (2016, August 16). Debtors' Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System. YouTube. https://youtu.be/RIghbrn5yfI
Source: Frontline PBS. (2020, February 14). "You're Just Disposable: Former Amazon Workers Speak Out." YouTube. https://youtu.be/3-KMXng5Cp0
Source: NowThis News. (2020, February 19). How Housing Redlining Contributed to the Racial Wealth Gap and Segregation. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8zeecPN35g
Source: Vice News. (2020, August 11). How Property Law Is Used to Appropriate Black Land. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3P_FicO7I
Source: Associated Press. (2021, May 3). Pandemic workers face another hazard: wage theft. YouTube. https://youtu.be/A__i1I5WvcI
Source: Urban Institute. (2013, March 25). The Racial Wealth Gap in America. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5BvZllI9-U
Books
Podcasts
At Liberty
Episode: Reckoning with America's Racial Residential Segregation
Who Makes Cents
Episode:Mehrsa Baradaran on Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Race and Regulation
Episode: Redlined Forever?
The Roxane Gay Agenda
Episode: Our Tax Code is Racist
Laverne Cox
Episode: Residential Segregation & Structural Racism
Black History Year
Episode: The Thin Line Between Entertainment and Exploitation
Interstitial
Episode: How the Suburbs Were Segregated
At Liberty
Episode: Your Friendly Neighborhood Bank: The Post Office
1619
Episode: The Economy that Slavery Built
Intercepted
Episode: The Rebellion Against Racial Capitalism
There Goes the Neighborhood
A podcast about how and why gentrification happens.
Data and Society
Episode: Data and Racial Capitalism
State of Working America
Raising workers' voices to make sure they are heard in the economic policy debate.
You First: The Disability Rights Florida Podcast
Episode: Barriers to Employment
Articles
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- (2022) Ten Years Into the Fight for $15, Workers Are Still Fighting for a Living Wage | Intercept
- (2021) The Asian American wealth gap, explained in a comic | Vox
- (2021) Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism | New York Times
- (2020) ‘Banking While Black’: How Cashing a Check Can Be a Minefield | New York Times
- (2020) The Gaps Between White and Black America, in Charts | New York Times
- (2021) Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership | NPR
- (2019) The Racism Right Before Our Eyes | New York Times
- (2020) Blacks Still Pay More Than Others for Home Ownership, MIT Study Finds | NBC News
- (2015) The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods | ProPublica
- (2021) How the Pandemic Economy Could Wipe Out a Generation of Black-Owned Businesses | ProPublica
- (2022) Incarcerated People Forced to Do Dangerous Work for “Slave” Wages at Height of Pandemic | Intercept
- (2021) Chicken Farming Is the 21st Century’s Sharecropping | Intercept
- (2021) You Must Work or Die: The Long History of “Worker Shortages” | Intercept
- (2023) Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. | New York Times
- (2021) US farm workers battle deadly heatwave | Aljazeera
- (2019) American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. | NyMag 1619 Project
- (2020) Coronavirus Exposes Exploitative U.S.-Mexico Relationship | Intercept
- (2020) Essential Workers Hold Walkouts And Protests In National 'Strike For Black Lives' | NPR
- (2016) Poultry Workers, Denied Bathroom Breaks, Wear Diapers: Oxfam Report | NBC News
- (2020) How prison labor contributes to the U.S. economy | NPR
- (2020) 'We're modern slaves': How meat plant workers became the new frontline in Covid-19 war | Gaurdian
- (2021) ‘I Really Loved My Job’: Why the Pandemic Has Hit Workers with Disabilities Harder | New York Times
- (2023) Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. | New York Times
- (2021) For Black Families, Evictions Are Still At A Crisis Point — Despite Moratorium | NPR
- (2020) After Meat Workers Die of Covid-19, Families Fight for Compensation | New York Times
- (2020) Black Workers Are More Likely to Be Unemployed but Less Likely to Get Unemployment Benefits | ProPublica
- (2021) How a Federal Agency Excluded Thousands of Viable Businesses From Pandemic Relief | ProPublica
- (2020) Inside the Lives of Immigrant Teens Working Dangerous Night Shifts in Suburban Factories | ProPublica
- (2021) Small Local Banks Make A Big Difference For Black-Owned Businesses Trying To Hang On | NPR
- (2021) State-Supported “Clean Energy” Loans Are Putting Borrowers At Risk of Losing Their Homes | ProPublica
- (2020) Why are so many black-owned small businesses shut out of PPP loans? | NBC News
- (2021) The USDA Is Set To Give Black Farmers Debt Relief. They've Heard That One Before | NPR
- (2020) How Landlords Discriminate Against Housing Voucher Holders | Time Magazine
- (2021) Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism | New York Times
- (2021) Black and Hispanic renters experience discrimination in almost every major American city| Vox
- (2022) Gunman targeted Black neighborhood shaped by decades of segregation. | New York Times
- (2020) Can You Break the Pull of a ZIP Code?| New York Times
- (2021) Conservationists See Rare Nature Sanctuaries. Black Farmers See a Legacy Bought Out From Under Them. | ProPublica
- (2021) America’s racist housing rules really can be fixed | Vox
- (2021) Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership | NPR
- (2018) Forget Wealth And Neighborhood. The Racial Income Gap Persists | NPR
- (2019) The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. | New York Times
- (2020) How Segregation Contributes to the Racial Wealth Gap | Time Magazine
- (2014) The Racist Housing Policies That Built Ferguson | The Atlantic
- (2020) How Segregation Contributes to the Racial Wealth Gap | Time Magazine
- (2018) Serena’s Not Alone. Women Are Penalized for Anger at Work, Especially Black Women. | New YorkTimes
- (2020) ‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Start-Ups | New York Times
- (2020) Their Bosses Asked Them to Lead Diversity Reviews. Guess Why | New York Times
- (2020) Studies Show: Black Women With Natural Hair Less Likely to Get Job Interviews | Color Linesa
- (2021) We Need Laws to Take On Racism and Sexism in Hiring Technology | New York Times
Scholarship
- (2018) Falling Behind: The Role of Inter- and Intragenerational Processes in Widening Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps through Early and Middle Adulthood | Alexandra Killewald and Brielle Bryan
- (2018) Homeownership in Black and White: The Role of Tax Policy in Increasing Housing Inequity | by Dorothy A. Brown
- (2020) Impact of Bank Closings on Credit Extension to Businesses in Low-Income and Minority Neighborhoods | Maude Toussaint-Comeau
- (2020) The Limits of Homeownership: Racial Capitalism, Black Wealth, and the Appreciation Gap in Atlanta. | Scott N. Markley
- (2019) Race Matters: Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races | by Randall Akee
- (2017) Revisiting the Subprime Crisis: The Dual Mortgage Market and Mortgage Defaults by Race and Ethnicity | by Carolina K. Reid
- (2018) Long-Term Earnings Differentials between African American and White Men by Educational Level | by Arthur Sakamoto
- (2019) The Crisis of the Black Worker, the U.S. Labor Movement, and Democracy for All | Augustus Wood
- (2020) Black Workers Matter”: Black labor geographies and uneven redevelopment in post-Katrina New Orleans | Caroline Keegan
- (2011) The Deportation Threat Dynamic and Victimization of Latino Migrants: Wage Theft and Robbery | Elizabeth Fussell
- (2005) Industries Behind Bars: An Economic Perspective on the Production of Goods and Services by U.S. Prison Industries| Frederic Pryor
- (2014) The Impact of Federal Prison Industries Employment on the Recidivism Outcomes of Female Inmates | Kerry M. Richmond
- (2020) Prison Labor in a Pandemic | Rachel Ellis
- (2016) Disposable subjects: The racial normativity of neoliberalism and Latino immigrants | Raymond Rocco
- (2020) Working Under Conditions of Social Vulnerability: Depression Among Latina/o Immigrant Horse Workers | Nalini Junko Negi
- (2022) Housing Discrimination and the Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States: Evidence from the Rental Market| by Peter Christensen
- (2022) The Relationship between Systemic Racism, Residential Segregation, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Deaths in the United States| by Berkeley Franz
- (2020) Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet: The Sociology of Race and Racism in the Digital Society | Tressie McMillan Cottom
- (2018) Environmental justice meets the right to stay put: mobilising against environmental racism, gentrification, and xenophobia in Chicago's Little Village. | Leslie Kern
- (2020) Predatory Inclusion in Consumer Credit: Explaining Black and White Disparities in Payday Loan Use | Raphaël Charron‐Chénier,
- (2016) Examining the Effects of Scattered Site Supportive Housing on the Social and Economic Integration of Men Who Are Formerly Homeless and Primarily Black/African American | by Geraldine L. Palmer
- (2015) Healthy Food Stores, Greenlining and Food Gentrification: Contesting New Forms of Privilege, Displacement and Locally Unwanted Land Uses in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods| by Isabelle Anguelovski
- (2020) Housing Discrimination and the Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States: Evidence from the Rental Market | Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri
- (2016) Out of the Projects, Still in the Hood: The Spatial Constraints on Public-Housing Residents' Relocation in Chicago | by Deirdre Oakley
- (2018) Racial Residential Segregation, Socioeconomic Disparities, and the White-Black Survival Gap | by Ioana Popescu
- (2019) Surviving the white space: perspectives on how middle-class Black men navigate cultural racism | Darrell Hudson
- (2018) Where do Black lives matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | Jenna M. Loyd
- (2020) City as borderland: Gentrification and the policing of Black and Latinx geographies in Oakland | Margaret Ramírez
- (2020) What's Policy Got to Do with It? Race, Gender & Economic Inequality in the United States | by Jamila Michener
- (2019) When “Class” Explanations Don’t Cut It: Specters of Race, Housing Instability, and Education Policy | by Ann Aviles
- (2013) Social Policy, "Deservingness," and Sociotemporal Marginalization: Katrina Survivors and FEMA | Megan Reid
- (2018) Bias, Employment Discrimination, and Black Women's Hair: Another Way Forward | by Crystal Powell
- (2020) Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment | by Patrick Buttona
- (2020) The Effects of Probation Stipulations on Employment Quality Among People on Probation | by Jesse Capece
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